Dot Net Mafia

Group site for developer blogs dealing with (usually) Ionic, .NET, SharePoint, Office 365, Mobile Development, and other Microsoft products, as well as some discussion of general programming related concepts.

Apple recently gave developers the ability to sign up testers using just a URL in TestFlight. Previously, it required the developer to manage a list of E-mail addresses which quickly becomes unwieldy. If you are interested in testing pre-release versions of Word, Excel, Outlook, and more then check out...

If you want to build an Office AddIn for Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, all you really need to know is a little HTML and JavaScript. Since Ionic Framework is built with HTML and JavaScript, it actually makes a great fit for hosting an Office AddIn. In fact, task pane apps have a very similar shape to your...

You can host an Ionic 2 Progressive Web App (PWA) pretty easily on Azure Web Sites (App Service). If you aren’t sure where to get started, take your Ionic 2 project and add the browser platform if you haven’t already. ionic platform add browser Now, you can test it locally by running against the browser...

If you have used Azure App Service, you will have loved how easy it is to set up authentication to providers such as Azure Active Directory and Facebook. It lets you get started with a single line of code. You can literally login with a single line of code like the following: client . login ( 'aad'...

I’ve done quite a bit of work with the client-side People Picker in SharePoint-hosted apps lately. I find that while it is relatively easy to get set up, I found it was quite easy to break. I have found that it tended to work better in Office 365 than it does in on-premises SharePoint 2013...

The new functionality of Office Delve, Boards , just came out recently. As a developer, you might be thinking how can I access this data in my own applications. This post will help you get started. These queries use the new Graph Query Language (GQL) syntax of Office Graph. As...

If you are a developer working with the SharePoint app model and have deployed a list, you might have noticed that the list settings button is missing from the ribbon. Now, you typically probably don’t want to adjust list settings inside an app through the UI. However, it’s not uncommon that you...

In the last few months, I have noticed some new acronyms creep up in the SharePoint community. What is it? Well as a developer, it’s stuff you’re probably already doing. You take a search in your favorite search engine and you won’t find the terms mentioned much with the earliest mention...

Does anyone remember back in the day when an application had an error, it actually displayed some kind of error message? Albeit the errors were usually cryptic, it was at least something that you could run with. Now if you look across the app ecosystem, there is a disturbing trend. ...

Cloud Business Apps are a new project type that you will find in Visual Studio 2013 for SharePoint development. What exactly are they? They are the next evolution of LightSwitch using the app model. If you’re not familiar with LightSwitch, it’s a light-weight developer tool inside Visual...